Sept | Oct 2022

 

Discover New Fall Reads From the Longhorn Universe

BORN TO SHINE  Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love  by Kendra Scott  A familiar name in Austin and in jewelry stores around...

 
 

Letter From the Executive Director: Bang the Drum

Harris backstage at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009. As a hardcore business major in the 1980s, I was focused on getting to class at the McCombs...

 
 

The Wildflower Center Is Planting a Field of Light

There’s plenty to see sprawled across the fields of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center nearly year round: pollinators flitting about native wildflowers,...

 
 

From the Desk of Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly, “Study for Blue and White Sculpture for Les Tuileries,” 1964, postcard collage. Ellsworth Kelly’s only freestanding building, Austin,...

 
 

Texas Athletics Brings Home the Directors’ Cup—Again

Alongside the 2022 Directors’ Cup is Chris Plonsky, Texas Athletics chief of staff and executive senior associate athletics director. Led by a new class...

 
 

20 Years of Tailgating

Friends Stavinoha, Burch, Holloway, and Smith purchased their burnt-orange Volkswagen in 2006; The tailgate across the pond in 2001. “Come early, be loud,...

 
 

A Wilder World

Author Millie Kerr has had a love for nature and wildlife since she was a child spending time on her grandparents’ ranch, a home to scimitar-horned oryx,...

 
 

Way Out West

Night begins to fall in Big Bend. We all know Texas is big. We often rumble around in the part we live in (if we’re lucky), and we kind of know that it’s...

 
 

This Longhorn Has Been Running for a Cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for Nearly 20 Years

The Revells at the finish line of the 2019 Austin Marathon. Faced with his son’s incurable disease, Tim Revell, BS, BS ’99, got busy. Although not a runner,...

 
 

The Way Back: Aggie Armadillos

An armadillo is removed from the field by a University of Texas Longhorn Band Member during halftime of the 1971 Texas vs. Texas A&M game. Few rivalries...

 
 
 
 
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